Potty training boys (ages 3 to 4)

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My son is 2years old & I recently started to try potty training him & his daycare teacher tells me that he pees in the potty everyday & every time shes asks him if he has to go he says yes & walks into the bathroom & proceeds to pull his pants & pull up down & sit on the potty & goes but when I ask him @ home he tells me no & won't even try to go in the bathroom & if I get him in the bathroom he doesn't want to sit on the potty! I have him on the same potty schedule as his daycare does & for some reason he refuses to go in the potty! I don't know what to do I'm open to any suggestions, please help

My son is 3 1/2. He's been peeing in the potty since he was 2. He refuses to poop on the potty and actually waits to go until we put him in his pull up for the night. We have tried everything to get him to go on the potty but he is absolutely terrified to go. He tells us he's scared but he doesn't know why. Anyone else with this problem? Suggestions? I'm willing to try almost anything!

My son is 3 1/2 and potty trained for the most part. He does great throughout the day and nap time, but I want him to be able to go to bed in his underwear and not pee in a pull up. He is such a sound sleeper I don't know how to get him to wake up. I have set alarms to wake him up but I can't get him up because he is in such a sound sleep. Help any ideas?

Ptrice90- This sounds very familiar and I am amused by the memories of a nakey bum running around. We helped my DS by giving him the responsibility of getting dressed in the morning by himself. I was there to help but it seemed to help him gain pride in himself. The half naked boy tends to come out of the bathroom less these days. Hope this helps.

My child just will not pull his under wears and pants up after using the bathroom. He insist on removing his pants entirely before urinating and will not pull them back up and then walks around half naked. Any ideas?

My son has always peed standing up, and his father was often on deployment or out to sea...so I guess he just internalized the image from the start, but he has trouble going poop in the potty. He's 4 1/2 and likes to pretend to poop on the potty, but not actually do it. His peeing is flawless, but he holds his poop until naptime or bedtime...it's upsetting since he's too old to be doing that and we can't figure out how to show him why it's better to use the potty. We have tried potty prizes, he gets them for pee, and double if he poops.

My son's father is out of the country so we don't have a model with the same equipment to show him how it's done. I used a water bottle filled with water and stuck it between my legs and stood in front of the potty aiming and dumping the water out very slowly. While doing this, I repeated peepee in the potty several times. He got the concept pretty well and is completely trained to go pee but we are still working on the number 2. We haven't figured out any tricks for this yet.

My 3 1/4 yr old son is defiant about going poopy in the potty. And as for peeing...he's about 50% trained. I ask him.why he doesn't want to and he s ays "I.just don't" or "cuz". I'm pregnant with.number 4 and do.not want two in diapers...again! Help!

I have identical twin boys who are in daycare all day. My "oldest" seemed to pick it up really quickly while my "youngest" had a lot of accidents. Same as Bee1979. great at school all day and then pee in their pants at home. Sometimes just too much distraction, tired by the end of the day, not getting the hourly reminders like at school. Then one day it clicked. Knock on wood, they both go on the potty, stand up, sit down, they tell me when they have to go, etc. My oldest is now dry by morning s well (most days) It's true what they say. One day they just get it. I've heard too that boys don't even get the "I HAVE to pee!!" sensation until after 2 or 3 years old, so that's why boys take longer.

My son was 3 when I started potty training. I am a single mom and he attends daycare. Most of the time he goes all day (at daycare) without any accidents and when he gets home, he pees in his pants. When I ask him where he is supposed to pee, he tells me "In the potty." Then I ask why he peed in his pants and he says, "Cause." I don't understand why he does so well at daycare, but doesn't at home.

I've been tt my son for months and months. He was 3.5 at the beginning of the year which is when we started. It's now August and he's STILL having accidents and I just don't understand it.. He has regressed a lot of times.

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